EDEN: Beautiful, broken and hiding a painful past.
He was exactly what I should have stayed away from. Especially after growing up the way I had. I had a plan for my life.
But sometimes things didn't go to plan and maybe running head first into Ryan Lawson wasn't such a bad thing after all.
RYAN: Damaged, jealous and lost.
I'd been playing the game for as long as I could remember.
Never letting anyone in out of fear they would leave, just like my parents. But there was something different about Eden. I wasn't so sure I would ever handle losing her.
But with that come a pretty real dose of reality and self-doubt.
Thankfully that self-doubt has started to edge to the back of my mind. Since having children I’ve adopted the mindset of accepting new challenges and embracing them. I want to be able to tell my girls to follow all of their dreams, while also having attempted it my self.
I won’t lie, I had no intention of publishing Never Enough when I first started writing.
You see I am an avid reader. If you knew how much I read you wouldn’t be able to look me in the eye without judgment.
The downfall of that was that I started to become very picky about the types and styles that I enjoyed.
My partner joked with me one day that if I couldn’t find a book that I absolutely loved, why didn’t I write one. So off I set to do just that.
The whole time I was writing away I didn’t mention it to anyone. But once I did, they told me I needed to get my writing out there.
Now I’ll be honest, my trusty old friend ‘Self-doubt’ nearly stopped me from clicking submit.
But at the end of the day, I did and I’m proud of myself for it.
My first book is not perfect.
While I’ve been praised for how well I can word things by family and friends over the years, I have never been praised for my poor form in grammar and structure.
Pushing that aside, I’ve published an eBook.
And as soon as I did, I had a brilliant idea for another and another.
Writing a story, creating a world and characters, creating dialogue... It’s exactly what I’d hoped it would be.